Poetry!

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Emotion recalled in tranquility
Poetry!
The right word in the right place
How to Eat a Poem Dont be politeBite in.Pick
it up with your fingers and lick the juice that
may run down your chin.It is ready and ripe
whenever you are. You do not need a knife or
fork or spoon or plate or napkin or
tableclothFor there is no coreOr stemOr
ringOr pitOr seedOr skinTo throw away
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Style or Technical Aspect

• Terms to know
• Metre the measured pulse of poetry
  - deals with the regular or irregular pattern of
  feet
• Foot a metrical unit in poetry an accented
  syllable with accompanying syllable
  or syllables.
• Rhythm measured flow of repeated sound patterns
• Eg.IAMBIC PENTAMETRE (light/heavy),
  trochaic (heavy/light)
• But soft! What light through yonder window
  breaks?
• (5 feet, each consisting of two syllables,
  iambic rhythm)
• Syntax the order of the words.

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Methods Used by Poets

• FICURES OF SPEECH
• Simile a comparison of unlike things using
  like or as Eg. Her face
  turned as white as chalk.
  She voice is like a finely tuned violin.
• Metaphor a comparison of two unlike things
  without using like or as
  Her fears was revealed by her chalky cheeks
  Her violin voice soothed the
  children.
• Personification giving human characteristics to
  inanimate objects or non living
  beings.
  Eg. The sun smiled on our picnic!

• POETIC / LITERARY DEVICES
• Allegory a poem which may be read on two
  levels the poet is suggesting By this I mean
  that. Allegories usually have a moral or
  didactic purpose, which is conveyed by symbols,
  symbolic characters, or symbolic incidents.
• Allusion a reference to someone, something with
  which the author assumes the reader will be
  familiar. May be historical, literary, mythical,
  religious etc.

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• Apostrophe addressing the absent as though
  present Eg. Oh Sun, shine
  your rays on me
• Pun a play on words (double meaning).When my
  car gets old I will retire it HAHaHa!

• Epigram a very short, polished, terse verse
  often with a witty ending
  Eg. Swans sing before they dietwere no bad
  thing Should
  certain people die before they sing.
  
  Coleridge

• Euphemism a polite way of saying something
  harsh or distasteful Eg.
  Comfort station instead of toilet.
• Hyperbole an exaggeration for effect
  Eg. Ive told you that a million
  times.

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• Oxymoron a contradiction in terms, usually an
  adjective followed with a contrasting
  noun Eg. Silent scream, freezing fire

• Paradox an apparently contradictory statement
  which, upon reflection, expresses a
  truth Eg. The child is father of the man.

• Symbolism a concrete object is used to suggest
  abstract ideas.

• Transferred Epithet (an epithet is a term
  characterizing something. Eg. brave
  Macbeth)
  - a transferred epithet
  is an adjective modifying a noun not
  usually associated
  with it. Eg. Cold war, happy tree

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Sound Devices
ALLITERATION the same sound is used to begin
words in succession. Eg.
Caroline kicked the Christmas cake!
ASSONANCE the contained vowel sound of
successive words is the same.
Eg. Green leaf, hope floats, brain flamed,
sand castle, high tide
CONSONANCE the repetition of two or more
consonants, but with a
change in the intervening vowel.
Eg. Live love, pitter patter,
horror hearer - repeating
consonants in any position.
Eg. Crawl with legs (Ls)
Thunder without lightning (THs)
ONOMATOPOEIA the sound of the word imitates the
sound of the action. Eg.
Swoosh, murmur, hiss, burp
EUPHONY an agreeable combination of sounds.
Eg. Numerous marigolds shone
beside the babbling brook.
CACOPHONY a disagreeable combination of
sounds. Eg. Coarse, cackling
laughter characterized the snarling, sinister
serviceman!
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Prose/Poetry

• Prose
• Literal, concrete
• States
• Clear and straightforward
• Standard sentence structure, proper punctuation
• How the passage sounds is secondary
• Prose comes from the brain

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Prose/Poetry

• Poetry
• Figurative, abstract
• Suggests
• Can be ambiguous
• No regular sentence structure, little or no
  punctuation
• Sound is key
• Poetry comes from the heart

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Analyzing or Appreciating a poem

• The quality or impressiveness or the importance
  of the thought expressed.
• The emotional effects of the passage and how they
  are created
• The effective use of imagery or colour or sound
  patterns.
• The effects of particular figures of speech
  and/or poetic devices.
• The kind of diction and the effect of its use.
• The merits of the verse form and rhyme scheme and
  the rhythm and melody of the language
• The merit under discussion should be named,
  illustrated from the text of the poem and, if
  possible, commented on as to the effectiveness or
  result

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Types of Poetry Ballad

• A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or
  four lines and usually a refrain. The story
  frequently deals with folk-lore or popular
  legends. Written in straight-forward verse,
  seldom with detail, but always with graphic
  simplicity and force. Most ballads are suitable
  for singing and, while sometimes varied in
  practice, are generally written in ballad meter,
  i.e., alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and
  iambic trimeter, with the last words of the
  second and fourth lines rhyming.

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Haiku

• Haiku is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting
  of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five
  syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all. Haiku
  is usually written in the present tense and
  focuses on nature (seasons). There is much more
  to haiku than the made up 5/7/5 version.

Pink cherry blossoms Cast shimmering reflections
On seas of Japan
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Limerick

• A Limerick is a rhymed humorous or nonsense poem
  of five lines which originated in Limerick,
  Ireland. The Limerick has a set rhyme scheme of
  a-a-b-b-a with a syllable structure of
  9-9-6-6-9. The rhythm of the poem should go as
  follows Lines 1, 2, 5 weak, weak, STRONG, weak,
  weak, STRONG, weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak
  Lines 3, 4 weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak,
  STRONG, weak, weak This is the most commonly
  heard first line of a limerick "There once was a
  man from Nantucket."

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Epic

• An epic is a long narrative poem celebrating the
  adventures and achievements of a hero...epics
  deal with the traditions, mythical or historical,
  of a nation. Examples Beowulf, The Iliad and the
  Odyssey, and Aeneid.

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An ODE is a poem praising and glorifying a
person, place or thing.

• An Ode To Dreamers
• When dreamers dream
• And lovers love
• Do they receive their visions
• From heaven above?
• Or do they originate
• Where all things start
• Within our minds Within our hearts?
• I know not all
• But what I do know is this
• You cannot build a Kingdom
• Upon a flimsy wish
• So believe in your dreams
• Follow them blind
• Lest you loose them all,
• To the hands of time.